6 south african traditional Recipes

puff pastry, preferably made with butter (you might need more, so keep at hand), milk, cinnamon sticks or 1/2 tsp ground, flour, cornflour , rounded, sugar, salt , small, vanilla, butter, eggs, separated

frozen puff pastry (or 14 oz flaky pastry, which is about 400 g), whole chicken , 4 1/2 lbs (about 2.3 kg, do not use breasts only, see directions), water (750 ml), instant chicken bouillon granules (45 ml), sago (100 ml), flour (45 ml), garlic and herb seasoning, dried (or similar seasoning, 15 ml), fresh garlic cloves, crushed and chopped, fresh coarse ground black pepper (10 ml), ground nutmeg, fresh (7 ml), fresh lemon juice (juice of 1/2 lemon, 45 ml, or use lime juice), any seasoning salt , to taste (or ordinary salt, 5ml), fresh thyme leave (or 2 tsp dried ), chopped fresh rosemary (or use 2 tsp dried ), eggs, good quality sliced ham (120 g)

cake flour, brown sugar or 2 cups yellow sugar, if available, baking soda, cream of tartar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg (optional), salt, butter, soft, rendered pork fat (or crisco if you must, see note below about pork fat), sweet sherry or 1/2 cup muscatel or 1/2 cup madeira wine or 1/2 cup port wine, but you may need up to 3/4 cup of the sweet wine, eggs, whisked well

flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, brown sugar, chopped almonds, chilled butter, cut into small pieces, eggs, lightly beaten, port wine or 1/4 cup sherry wine, egg white, beaten